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Abrahamson, Eric; and David H. Freedman. A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2007.

Alonso, Marcelo, ed. Organization and Change in Complex Systems. New York: Paragon House, 1990.

Argyros, Alexander J. A Blessed Rage for Order: Deconstruction, Evolution and Chaos. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991.

Arthur, W. Brian; Steven N. Durlauf; and David A. Lane, eds. The Economy as an Evolving Complex System II. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1997.

Arthur, W. Brian. Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1994.

Axelrod, Robert and Michael D. Cohen. Harnessing Complexity: Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier. New York: The Free Press, 1999.

Ayres, Robert U. Information, Entropy and Progress: A New Evolutionary Paradigm. New York: AIP Press, 1994.

Babloyantz, A. Molecules, Dynamics and Life: An Introduction to Self-Organization of Matter. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1986.

Bak, Per. How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1996.

Ball, Philip. Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.

Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo. Linked: The New Science of Networks. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Perseus Publishing, 2002.

Batten, David F. Discovering Artificial Economics: How Agents Learn and Economies Evolve. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 2000.

Battram, Arthur. Navigating Complexity: The Essential Guide to Complexity Theory in Business and Management. London: The Industrial Society, 1998.

Batty, Michael. Cities and Complexity: Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models, and Fractals. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2007.

Bedau, Mark A.; and Paul Humphreys. Emergence: Contemporary Readings in Philosophy and Science. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2008.

Beinhocker, Eric D. The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics. Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Press, 2006.

Buchanan, Mark. Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002.

Buchanan, Mark. The Social Atom: Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You. New York: Bloomsbury, 2007.

Buchanan, Mark. Ubiquity: The Science of History ... Or Why the World is Simpler Than We Think. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000.

Capra, Fritjov. The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems. New York: Anchor Books, 1996.

Casti, John L. Complexification: Explaining the Physical World Through the Science of Surprise. New York: Harper Collins, 1994.

Chaisson, Eric J. Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature. Cambridge, Massachussetts: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Clippinger, John Henry, III, ed. The Biology Of Business: Decoding The Natural Laws Of Enterprise. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass,1999.

Cohen, Jack and Ian Stewart. The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World. New York: Viking, 1994.

Corning, Peter. Holistic Darwinism: Synergy, Cybernetics, and the Bioeconomics of Evolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Corning, Peter. Nature's Magic: Synergy in Evolution and the Fate of Mankind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Coveney, Peter and Roger Highfield. The Arrow of Time: A Voyage Through Science to Solve Time's Greatest Mystery. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1990.

Coveney, Peter and Roger Highfield. Frontiers of Complexity: The Search for Order in a Chaotic World. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1995.

Cowan, George A., David Pines and David Meltzer, eds. Complexity: Metaphors, Models and Reality. Reading, Massachusetts: Perseus Books, 1994.

Crosby, Robert w., ed. Cities and Regions as Nonlinear Decision Systems. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1983.

Davies, Paul. The Cosmic Blueprint. London: William Heinemann, 1987.

 

de Geus, Arie. The Living Company: Habits for Survival in a Turbulent Business Environment. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1997.

Diacu, Florin and Philip Holmes. Celestial Encounters: The Origins of Chaos and Stability. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Gell-Mann, Murray. The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex. New York: W. H. Freeman, 1994.

Gladwell, Malcolm. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2000.

Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York: Penguin Books, 1987.

Gleick, James; and Eliot Porter. Nature's Chaos. London: Abacus, 1990.

Goodwin, Brian. How the Leopard Changed Its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994.

Gordon, Deborah. Ants At Work: How An Insect Society is Organized. New York: The Free Press, 1999.

Gribbin, John. Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity. New York: Random House, 2004.

Gunderson, Lance H.; and C. S. Holling, eds. Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems. Washington: Island Press, 2002.

Haken, Hermann. The Science of Structure: Synergetics. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981.

Hall, Nina, ed. Exploring Chaos: A Guide to the New Science of Disorder. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.

Holland, John H. Emergence: From Chaos to Order. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1998.

Holland, John H. Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1995.

Johnson, George. Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith and the Search for Order. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

Johnson, Steven. Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software. New York: Scribner, 2001.

Kauffman, Stuart. At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Kauffman, Stuart A. Investigations. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Kauffman, Stuart A. The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Kauffman, Stuart A. Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason and Religion. New York: Basic Books, 2008.

Kelly, Kevin. Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1994.

Kelly, Susanne and Mary Ann Allison. The Complexity Advantage: How the Science of Complexity Can Help Your Business Achieve Peak Performance. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1999.

Krugman, Paul. The Self-Organizing Economy. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.

Levin, Roger. Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

Krugman, Paul. The Self-Organizing Economy. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1996.

Mainzer, Klaus. Thinking in Complexity: The Complex Dynamics of Matter, Mind, and Mankind. New York: Springer, 1997.

Mandelbrot, Benoit B. and Richard L. Hudson. The (Mis)behavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Reward. New York: Perseus Books, 2004.

McMaster, Michael D. The Intelligence Advantage: Organizing for Complexity. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1996.

Morowitz, Harold J. The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Nicolis, Gregoire and Ilya Prigogine. Exploring Complexity: An Introduction. New York: W. H. Freeman, 1989.

Ormerod, Paul. Butterfly Economics: A New General Theory of Social and Economic Behavior. New York: Pantheon Books, 1998.

Ormerod, Paul. Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics. London: Faber & Faber, 2005.

Orrell, David. Apollo’s Arrow: The Science of Prediction and the Future of Everything. Toronto: HarperCollins, 2007.

Pagels, Heinz. The Dreams of Reason: The Computer and the Rise of the Sciences of Complexity. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.

Pascale, Richard T.; Mark Millemann and Linda Gioja. Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business. New York: Crown Business, 2000.

Peterson, Ivars. Newton's Clock: Chaos in the Solar System. New York: W. H. Freeman, 1993.

Poundstone, William. The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge. New York: William Morrow, 1985.

Prigogine, Ilya. The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos and the New Laws of Nature. New York: The Free Press, 1996.

Resnick, Mitchel. Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1994.

Rothschild, Michael. Bionomics: The Inevitability of Capitalism. New York: Henry Holt, 1990.

Rucker, Rudy. The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning of Life, and How to Be Happy. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2005.

Ruelle, David. Chance and Chaos. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1991.

Sole, Ricard and Brian Goodwin. Signs of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology. New York: Basic Books, 2000.

Stacey, Ralph D. Complexity and Creativity In Organizations. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc., 1996.

Stewart, Ian. Does God Play Dice? The Mathematics of Chaos. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989.

Strogatz, Steven. SYNC: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order. New York: Hyperion, 2003.

Surowiecki, James. The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, conomies, Societies, and Nations. New York: Doubleday, 2004.

Taylor, Mark C. The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Von Bertalanffy, Ludwig. Perspectives on General System Theory. New York, George Braziller, 1975.

Waldrop, M. Mitchell. Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

Ward, Mark. Universality: The Underlying Theory Behind Life, the Universe and Everything. London: Macmillan, 2001.

Watts, Duncan J. Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. New York: W. W. Norton, 2003.

Watts, Duncan J. Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Wheatley, Margaret J. Leadership and the New Science: Learning About Organization from an Orderly Universe. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1992.

Wolfram, Stephen. A New Kind of Science. Champaign, Illinois: Wolfram Media, 2002.

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